Robert Peston hints that the BBC Trust should and might be split….its power to regulate the BBC removed:   Here are a couple of mildly interesting tidbits about my own shop, the BBC. First (and there is nothing terribly revelatory about this) Lord Coe is a virtual shoo-in to be Lord Patten’s successor as chairman of the BBC Trust. Of course his appointment is not 100%, because there … Continue reading →

    Capitalists can obviously go up stairs.   Top Gear, Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing face being privatised under ‘competition revolution’ at the BBC Top BBC shows like Doctor Who, Top Gear and Strictly Come Dancing face being privatised under new cost-cutting plans at the corporation. Hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of TV programmes currently produced by the BBC will no longer be protected from outside competition … Continue reading →

    Israel launched a terror alert as BBC journo assumed to be Hamas terrorist…how could that ever happen?          

    Patten’s hardly out the door when: BBC’s Nicky Campbell launches scathing attack on Lord Patten over female broadcasters debate Nicky Campbell, the BBC Radio 5 Live broadcaster, has claimed that Lord Patten was “ignorant” of the number of talented female broadcasters already working at the BBC when he called for more women on air. Campbell launched a blistering attack on the BBC Trust Chairman, who has stepped down … Continue reading →

      John Lloyd being ridiculous: The writer and TV producer John Lloyd has said it “makes his blood run cold” to look back on a comedy sketch from 1980 that shows young children being abducted and put in a BBC van bound for a children’s TV show hosted by Rolf Harris. He told The Independent: “It is extraordinary how spooky it is, it’s almost prophetic. “It makes the … Continue reading →

    Interesting to see what the BBC has been doing with some money it receives from the EU: (H/T  Bishop Hill)     Funding revolution it seems.  All interesting countries to be ‘developing’ the Media in….Iran and Syria especially.    

  It is interesting how the BBC frames the debate on immigration.  The Migration Advisory Committee has released a report into the impact of new entrants to the EU in regard to immigration to the UK.   The BBC’s first thought is for the immigrants: Low-skilled, vulnerable workers are at risk of exploitation because of lax labour checks, a report has warned.   But that is the whole point of … Continue reading →

    Good to hear on the BBC (2 mins) that  ‘Israel continues to bomb Gaza in defiance of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who has called for an end to Israeli airstrikes.’   Nicky Campbell talking to an Israeli military spokesman earlier in the day (09:41) was busy making equivalence between the Israeli government and the terrorist organisation Hamas. After asking if the Israeli airstrikes might be described as … Continue reading →

  Bishop Hill links to various green/BBC stuff: The BBC’s internal contradictions   Is it ‘cos he’s a green?   And this via GWPF and originally the Times: The BBC Has Lost Its Balance Over Climate Change

    Victoria Derbyshire wants to know what Ramadan means for you. (11:50)   Remarkably the BBC didn’t find anyone who said Ramadan was a pain in the backside, you starve, you get irritated and angry, you get thirsty and for what?  It’s so stupid.   Instead we had the ‘wonders’ of Ramadan…it makes you more empathetic towards the less fortunate, the poor and starving, it cleanses your soul, detoxes … Continue reading →